This is a interesting mystery novel from the perspective of a history lesson about how women were treated during the late 1800s. Women's rights were not equal at all even in an all girls school. Concordia Wells is a single woman who goes to teach at Hartford College for Women. She has to live in the dorm with the girls and along with the house mother, watch the girls behavior. Male teachers can go home to their own homes at night. Women teachers can not be married and there is a "lady principal" but there still is a school president who oversees the school. As people are starting to die and some others are being attacked at the school, Concordia starts to help the lady principal investigate. When her sister dies unexpectedly, she is suspicious of what is happening at the house where she just returned from her honeymoon with her new husband .
Written by K,B, Owen this is a complicated mystery to follow with many characters and a few red herrings thrown in to make the murder undetectable. But there are great descriptions of the clothes of the times the modes of transportation in a small college town and great details about the lifestyle women and their rights during this time period,.
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